Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends revived the old joke that his wife had simply asked him to pick up a paper on the way home. Mecom has that kind of reputation. Right up with H. L. Hunt and J. Paul Getty among Texas' biggest independent oil producers, Mecom has added to his rich oil empire by picking up fish-meal plants, a drugstore, ranches, and other assorted enterprises from here and there. He had never tried a paper before, and last week it turned out that Mecom had apparently never really bought the paper...
Oliver was just completing a major research project -- a three-year high school social studies curriculum in rich students were taught how to analyze controversial issues. According to a colleague, Oliver already had questions about the results and was sure that he had accomplished anything significant by developing a since high school curriculum. As he put in a later memorandum...
...talking at a playground, children talking in small groups at school and teachers speaking in classrooms. They hope to know by the end of the year such things as whether children speak more fluently among their own peers or in a mixed group of Negro and white students or rich and poor students, and whether many teachers talk over the heads of their students or deny them opportunities to speak. Then, the group hopes, it will be able to discover ways of teaching oral and written language that overcome the problem of communication...
...roots of the hostility, Harvard officials think, lie in the coincidence of many different, but related conflicts: Yankee-Irish, rich-poor, and educated-uneducated. But Harvard's dislike for this state of affairs has not warped its good sense: the University must survive in this place, and thus the need for someone like Whitlock...
Members will march from the elections in Harvard Hall to the Theatre, led by the traditional fife and drum. The poet will be Adrienne Rich '51, and the Orator will be Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature...